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Title: Wnats a good dvd burner??
Post by: WhiteHawk on March 08, 2004, 02:00:10 PM

Need a dvd burner.  Ive seen them from 60 bucks to 200 bucks.  Dont need any bells or whistles, just need to back up me dvd's.
  My kids are hell on them.

Title: Wnats a good dvd burner??
Post by: LAWCobra on March 08, 2004, 05:55:29 PM

I have a plexor and it's been very good so far (2years)

Title: Re: Wnats a good dvd burner??
Post by: Pfunk on March 08, 2004, 06:22:48 PM

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Originally posted by WhiteHawk
Need a dvd burner.  Ive seen them from 60 bucks to 200 bucks.  Dont need any bells or whistles, just need to back up me dvd's.
  My kids are hell on them.

If your local OfficeMax has them in stock.they are discontinued.....They have the HP300I on sale for $49 with a $30 rebate.......same drive I have and it is excellent. Instore sale only.

Title: Wnats a good dvd burner??
Post by: save on March 09, 2004, 05:25:56 AM

look at http://www.tomshardware.com
they had a dvd-burner test.

LG won.

Title: Wnats a good dvd burner??
Post by: Staga on March 09, 2004, 01:08:22 PM

After reading some articles and user opinions I bought a NEC ND-2500. Fast and good burner.

Title: Wnats a good dvd burner??
Post by: bloom25 on March 09, 2004, 03:37:55 PM

8.5 GB/disk recordable DVD disks and drives will be available in a few months...

Title: Wnats a good dvd burner??
Post by: Pfunk on March 09, 2004, 09:29:32 PM

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Originally posted by bloom25
8.5 GB/disk recordable DVD disks and drives will be available in a few months...

While they might be available, they will not be seen in large #'s  Hell 8X Drives have been out for months and I have rarely seen any 8X media.

Title: Wnats a good dvd burner??
Post by: Wilbus on March 15, 2004, 06:01:26 PM

Bought my self a NEC 2500 like Staga, have had it for about a week, one of the quite few 8x buring burners, works great with every CD and DVD I've tried. Can't find any 8x DVD's though, only 4x's.

4x fast enough though, DVD ripped a 2 and a half hour long movie in just over 30 minutes. It included first copying the original DVD to the HD.

Title: Wnats a good dvd burner??
Post by: Pfunk on March 16, 2004, 01:04:23 PM

http://www.filemirrors.com/search.src?file=dvdshrink317setup.zip



Best program out there for backing up dual layer dvds

Title: Wnats a good dvd burner??
Post by: SOB on March 16, 2004, 02:41:50 PM

I've been using DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink which uses my copy of Nero to burn after it's done shrinking.  Been pretty happy with this setup so far.  Using the Plextor PX-504A (http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=513366&sku=P67-1052%20P), which only does DVD+R/RW, but it's a Plextor drive and it's cheap.

Title: Wnats a good dvd burner??
Post by: Pfunk on March 16, 2004, 08:01:08 PM

Not really any need to use DVD Decrypter....Shrink does it for you........ unless Shrink wont decrypt it for you.........which happens very rarely

Title: Wnats a good dvd burner??
Post by: SOB on March 17, 2004, 12:07:30 AM

Yeah, I noticed that, but have been using decrypter anyway.  It wasn't broke...

Title: Wnats a good dvd burner??
Post by: WhiteHawk on March 29, 2004, 09:48:24 AM

not that i would ever think of doing this but,   does the shrink program allow one to rip off rentals or just back up purchased dvd's, or is there any difference.  Or do I have to buy the rip program?

Title: Wnats a good dvd burner??
Post by: SOB on March 29, 2004, 11:06:56 AM

Yep, it'll backup rentals as well as any other DVD.

Title: Wnats a good dvd burner??
Post by: Pfunk on March 29, 2004, 11:18:30 AM

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Originally posted by WhiteHawk
not that i would ever think of doing this but,   does the shrink program allow one to rip off rentals or just back up purchased dvd's, or is there any difference.  Or do I have to buy the rip program?

http://www.mrbass.org/dvdshrink/

Title: Wnats a good dvd burner??
Post by: Orig on March 29, 2004, 03:49:39 PM

I got a sony on sale right before everyone else started making the +/- R/RW drives and the only thing I don't like about it is that the cheapo backup sofware it comes with does not do incremental backups.  Other than that, the drive is great and the software bundle was nice, even though I ended up sticking with the version of Nero I already had.